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Mikan:
Kay, my gateway laptop (from last yrs black friday at bestbuy) laptop decided to give out today from a virus (webroot didnt kill it (type with Sophos)) So i threw in win7 cd and tried to install it and I kept getting errors from the installer. soon after I tried another CD (the one i made for tatsu, which is now gone) and the cd drive started whining, and gave me wierd BIOS errors. then I rebooted with other CD and got corruption error during the unpacking of the files. So, I then swapped HDD's into this laptop and I got same corruption error. So, I went to compusa and bought a external DVD/CD RW burner/reader from Velocity Micro.... apparently to use it it requires Firmware so I couldnt use the cd in there for a boot install.  I threw the hdd into a Thermaltake (BLACX) two of them, and ran scans and everything. and nothing wrong was found. using EASEUS atm to join the recovery and main partition from gateway into one so the hdd is totally empty, but this is so much epic fail....

But if it doesnt work then what =.=

GoGeTa006:
Black friday is comming. . . ;D
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if everything fails. . . reformat and start from scratch. . .
but i guess that failed too. . .soo

Mikan:

--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on November 17, 2009, 10:47:19 PM ---Black friday is comming. . . ;D
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if everything fails. . . reformat and start from scratch. . .
but i guess that failed too. . .soo


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-> Mikan isnt standing in line for 8 hours in Miami to get a failtop, Mikan needs the  money for something uber important <-

Im booting off 1RAM Chip instead of two >>

Wierd thing is,

RAM Slot 1: using 2nd slot chip (didnt boot from cd)
RAM Slot 2: using 2nd slot chip (didnt boot from cd)
RAM Slot 1: using 1st slot chip (Booted from CD, Crashed)
RAM Slot 2: using 1st slot chip (Booted from CD, loading)

sdedalus83:
It sounds like your laptop gave out due to hardware failure rather than a virus.  Since it looks like you might have both a drive failure and a RAM failure, you probably have something else wrong as well, such as a motherboard or PSU failure.  You might want to make one last attempt to boot a lightweight linux distro, like DSL, from a usb flash drive.  Try every possible RAM configuration, try installing to HDD, run RAM and drive diagnostics.

If you bought it last year it should still be under warranty for a few more days.  How did you make the purchase?  Do you still have the receipt?
If you bought it from Best Buy with an electronic payment method, they should be able to recreate the receipt if you don't have it.

If it was purchased with a credit card, the warranty should be extended 1 year from the end of the initial warranty period.  Some banks offer the same kind of protection with their debit cards.  If for some reason it's no longer under the original warranty, it might be covered under one of those kinds of policies.

If it's still under warranty, you probably have 10 days to get it processed.  If you can't figure it out tonight, stop fiddling with it yourself and file a claim.  You'll most likely end up with a refurbished computer that currently sells for whatever you paid for the one you have.  Even taking into consideration the Black Friday discount, there's a good chance you'll come away with a better computer in a lot better condition.

Mikan:
I knew this pc would die out fast.

Brother ran some stuff and came up with this.

PSU and CPU are really damaged, my HDD is Okay and my cd drive is overheating to the point of splotching cd's
One of my ram chips got damaged. Warranty is out aswell since this isnt covered he said.

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